種子 · Carsick Cars

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 5:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 10-21 and 40-48, and 1 more place -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
種子 · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 29, 50, 61, 65, 73 and 3 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 種子?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 種子 hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 種子?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 29, 50, 61, 65, 73 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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